| Blah, this "debate" is so utterly moot I can't believe its still even discussed.
What is art? 1) A means of communicating the abstract or what can't be expressed through words. 2) A medium which produces or reproduces within the consumer of that medium an intended (and occasionally unintended) set of emotional and/or intellectual states--that is, the previously mentioned abstract. 3) A process through which participating in these induced states of thought has the result of allowing the participant to better understand himself (and if a deeper art is reached, his relation to society and the world).
Do games fulfill these criteria? Yes. Do even games like Tetris fulfill these criteria? Yes. Does it matter worth a da** if certain parts of society don't recognize this? No. Let's move on already.
Last edited by Yogge Sothothe; 03-23-2008 at 09:31 PM.
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